Half Quotes - Page 6

• If God is good half the Bible is libel.

  Michael R. Burch

  Libel, Ifs

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• Half the battle is just showing up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Battle, Showing Up

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• ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

  R. H. Tawney

  Mean, Political, Democracy

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.166, Verso Books

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• Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God; for without justice, there is no God.

  Thomas Cahill

  Children, Night, Justice

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

  Shania Twain

  Knows

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• I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

  Jack White

  Party, Cutting, Simple

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

  David Crabb

  Average, World

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• I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Other Half, Cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Chourmo”, p.100, Penguin

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• One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.

  Studs Terkel

  Gun, Night, Pigs

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Usury

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Heart, Eye

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

  Pat Barker

  Done, World, Hopeless

  Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.60, Penguin

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• Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

  Peter Senge

  Elephants, Two, Doe

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• I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Passing Away, Advise

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• There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

  Claire Danes

  Silly, Light, Years

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• I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!

  Joel Osteen

  Believe

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

  Kevin Sessums

  Jobs, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.

  Milla Jovovich

  Kids, Pawns, Firsts

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.

  Marcelo Claure

  Eight, Media, Long

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

  Will Packer

  Trying, Want, Film

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

  Keith Rabois

  Responsibility, People, Giving

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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